Yeah, basically because I'm familiar with it, and because it won't take forever to get the basics down.

True, that. When it comes to properly updating the multitude of objects any game requires, most programming languages are whiny ****s.



See: Iji.

And now even I feel like learning GML for a start. See ya guys on the first tech demo.

Looking good guys
Wine support for GM games is patchy (it works, but lags) but it's a nice start.

Lizard, I hope you're not going to be worn out with all this pixelling

I bloody hell wojn't

Ah, I was wondering why you preferred construct.

And yeah, as far as gamemaker games go, see Spelunky, Immortal Defense, et cetera.
Not that'd I put myself on the same level as them, but hey.

Construct? Nono, Flixel or Love.
Spelunky and Super Crate Box are two amazing games made with gamemaker. It's not about the tools, it's about who's using them, imo.

What about us then?

Whoops. To clarify, I meant, why'd you'd prefer if I was using construct.
I presume the wine support for it is better?

I used to use game maker. It's quite useful for people interested in programming, but it is really. slow. when you get to more complex projects. This comes from a guy who tried to make an RTS. People liked it, but I lost interest quickly as a lot of the things I had planned couldn't be implemented due to the immense lag from having too many objects.
I've moved on to C++ since then.


Anyway, it's a good start, but there isn't much to look at. You should probably implement more than a movement engine before posting it, as running around is something you can do in any game.
My only gripe though is how the character moves so slowly horizontally yet jumps so quickly. If the jumps were slower physics could be implemented as well. As of now the gravity acts way too quickly.

Looking forward to guns or something though.

Wow guys, this is fantastic.

Gravity is Way to high, its really hard to control your character. If you have slow moving bullets, I would suggest implementing a frame cap at 60ish to keep the game from rocketing along. If however the weapons have fast or instantaneous bullet speed, this would be good.

Nice look youve got going there, the levels are really cool.

Ill be watching this one.

You guys are on the list of "People who are cool enough to pull off a gamemaker game". Your art is strong enough to stand on it's own without too many flashy overlays or transformation matrices and judging by the available code I've seen from you you'll be able to handle anything up to a medium size project without too much stress.

Oh, probably, it's just GM games that do something terrible with wine. I'm coding in flash at the moment because it's got a good balance of cross-platform-ness (Though 64bit linux isn't supported bastard adobe) and accessibility (put it on the web, almost everyone can play it, no install) but I'm looking to learn a lower-level language at some point for more performance. I wouldn't use gamemaker personally but I've got no real gripes with you using it, it just means I can't really play your games on my laptop.

The speed (and maybe wine) problem is probably because it converts from Objects > GML > C > Machine Code to compile instead of just C > Machine code, which is just a tad less efficient :V
You'll get a faster game by programming the man's way, but it's probably not going to end up making much of an impact in a game of this genre.

(FYI THIS ISN'T REALLY SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN BUT IT HAPPENS ANYWAYS XD)

Above: How elevators are going to work.